Who You Gonna Call?
Phage Hunters!
When searching for viruses that infect bacteria … call on researchers trained to isolate them.
Phage Hunters!
When searching for viruses that infect bacteria … call on researchers trained to isolate them.
For one week at the end of June, 12 local students (of middle school age) immersed themselves in a summer science and art camp at CHC where they learned to observe and artistically reproduce diverse preserved and living organisms.
The goal of the camp was to broaden the students’ science knowledge while incorporating creative means of reinforcing that knowledge.
It’s All About the Science
Forensic biology major, Janelle Leo ’17, interned at the Center for Forensic Science and Research Education in Willow Grove, Pa., the summer of her junior year.
Chestnut Hill College welcomed Paul Offit, M.D., for the 24th Annual Spring Biomedical Distinguished Lecture Series on April 5.
Paul A. Offit, M.D., will present “How to Communicate Science to the Public—or Die Trying.”
Is there a contradiction between what we learn from science and what we learn from theology? How can scientific discoveries enlighten religious beliefs? These are some of the questions asked and discussed by the Institute for Religion and Science (IRS) hosted at Chestnut Hill College.
The 23rd Annual Fall Biomedical Distinguished Lecture Series featured husband and wife neonatologists who spoke to a standing-room-only crowd of students, faculty, staff and members of the larger community.
CHC’s 23rd Annual Fall Biomedical Distinguished Lecture Series will be presented by the Biology Department on Wednesday, October 5, at 2 p.m. in the East Parlor.
This year’s speakers are Mary Lenore Gricoski Keszler, M.D. ’74 who will speak on “A Short History of the Neonatal Follow-Up Programs,” and Martin Keszler, M.D., who will deliver the lecture “Fifty Years of Newborn Intensive Care: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby!”
The undergraduate academic career of Allison Eberly ’14, a current doctoral candidate in the biomedical sciences at Vanderbilt University, can be summed up in five words: research, research and more research.
Dr. Harald zur Hausen will present his evolving research on cervical cancer, and his current research on the role of novel viruses in cancers of the colon and breast, as well as in multiple sclerosis.